People expected to admire HBO's 'Chernobyl.' Few, including writer Craig Mazin, thought it would draw more than 9 million viewers and spawn a popular podcast.
was about that.” So now we’re just sort of gawking at history. Far from it: There was nothing that happened in the Soviet Union that couldn’t happen anywhere else, because the last time I checked, the Soviet Union was made up of people, and these are human problems.
To me, one of the most fascinating parts of watching “Chernobyl” was listening to the companion podcast. Can you tell me about how that came about? I thought that if people listened to the podcast, it would perhaps make the conversations a little easier. Because sometimes conversations on Twitter can turn around questions, which become arguments. Some people say, “Why did they do this?” And someone will say, “I think they did it because of this.” And someone else will say, “Well, I think they did it because of this.” And they begin to fight, because it’s Twitter. Meanwhile, they’re both wrong.
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